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Old??? Nearly nothing is left from before WWII in this city.
I am not sure if around Buchhorn square anything is older than 1948 but a few church walls below newer plaster.
It germany most modern downtowns as far as streets with shops are designated for walking and delivery only are of smal rock plaster. Thats called a "Fussgaengerzone" and sort making an open air mall of it.
As for the rags, of course they are all new fabrics and not made of old stuff. Guess it is easier and more hygienic for the carneval club people sewing them and the serious value of waving and colouring fabrics is anyway down the drain...
Rag garlands belong however to our achaic looking and touristic fasnet. I usually stay well away from main Fasnet holiday events although many photographer love it for all the very colourful traditional style costumes -- only that most of that is in truth neither pagan nor medieval tradition, but just like any parade clubs and marching band event anywhere, a very loud demonstration of old boys network clubs in sometimes more, sometimes less artistic and tasteful, silly or wild looking masks. On regular shopping days during the season, the flags and rag garlands are still there, but life is otherwise as usual.

Well, you of course cant be expected to know from school history classes much more than that this is the city the big Zeppelins came from... but it had a really weird history.
It did not even exist under this name or as a real city until secularisation and some border reforms due to the Napoleonic War in 1811. There was a tiny walled fishing and market town named Buchhorn in the place you see in this picture, but it was of course not having streets this wide. There are almost no surviving buildings of it. The wall piece in the previous pic and a second one like it but even smaler, along with some parts of the rebuilt gothic church is about the extend of it.
There are other medieval or baroque remains in the muncipality, but they belonged once to the two big monastries or other villages incorporated later that mostly kept their name as for the quarter, but not the lost town of Buchhorn. It just became part of the towns coat of arms, the Beech and the Horn, and after car traffic was banned from the center a modern fountain was finally concepted for comemorating also its old tales along with the industrial heritage and traditions invented later on.
This fountain is what the reminder of the set targeted.
I am not a native born here and grown up with regional tales, so a lot of stuff hinted on still escape me. I still learn meanings of details.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrichshafen